Teen Summit - A TU National Leadership Conference

Since 2012, the Headwaters Youth Program (with help from supporters and grassroots volunteers) has hosted an annual leadership conference for teens called the TU Teen Summit. The Summit recruits young leaders aged 13 to 18 that have proven commitment to TU’s mission and have demonstrated leadership at a high level. The team they form is the Youth Leadership Council or YLC. The YLC stay involved with each other, their local community, and with TU staff throughout the year working on projects and outreach with the goal to raise TU’s profile among their peers. The Summit is the capstone of our K-12 programs and is the final link in the Stream of Engagement to the TU Costa 5 Rivers Program.

If you're a teen, join us for the Teen Summit to meet other TU Teens from across the country, talk about how TU can better engage teen members, learn how to become a TU leader in your community, work on a service project and fish! Spend five days with a group of new friends that love fishing, the outdoors and TU as much as you do.

2018 Cost:

Deadline to submit application is April 01, 2017 by midnight. Not all who apply are accepted. Applicants will be notified if they make it to the interview round by April 7, 2017. Select applicants will participate in a 15-minute phone interview. Participants will be notified of their final standing by May 2, 2017.

Agenda includes:

conservation tours of the area

leadership skills workshops to bring TU activities into your community

conservation and science workshops

guest speakers

service project at a local stream

lots of time for hanging out by the campfire, tying flies, and fishing!